CHINA CONFIDENTIAL
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Obama, No Merci Beaucoup
The Jewish Case Against Obama
Is Obama an Illegal Alien or a Dual Citizen?
Dateline USA....
The mystery won't go away as long as the key questions go unanswered by Obama--and ignored or ridiculed by an adoring mainstream media. Even Fox News is scared to go there....
Was Obama born in Kenya or Hawaii? The released and leaked image of his birth certificate seems like a forgery.
Is Obama an Indonesian citizen? His Indonesian school certificate, submitted by his Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, who may have formally adopted him, lists his citizenship as Indonesian, his name as Barry Soetoro, (and his religion as "Islam").
Was Obama ever naturalized? That is far from clear.
Chris Matthews and other mainstream media Obamaphiles like to say that Obama's story is typically American. Actually, it is mysterious and bizarre, unlike anything most Americans have ever encountered.
POSTSCRIPT: Charlie Cook weighs in on the what-ifs:Certainly, the 2008 presidential contest could reverse direction and result in victory for John McCain. But at this point, he would have to be the beneficiary of something quite dramatic for that to happen.
As this campaign has shifted from a surprise-around-every-corner situation to one more akin to watching concrete set, many observers have begun playing "What if?" If McCain had picked someone other than Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, would he now be higher in the polls? If the senator from Arizona had waged this battle more as John McCain 1.0, the 2000-vintage candidate who was more of a maverick and less of a partisan than the 2008 version, could he have succeeded because he was less tied to his Republican Party and less joined at the hip with President Bush?
These are interesting questions, but they avoid one unmistakable fact: This is a toxic political environment for Republicans. That's why they will probably lose at least seven seats in the Senate and at least 20 in the House. Having former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or former eBay CEO Meg Whitman or even Mother Teresa as McCain's running mate would not have changed that. And, with Bush's job-approval rating in a recent Gallup Poll at 25 percent, my National Journal colleague Ronald Brownstein has noted that McCain would need the support of one-third of all voters who disapprove of Bush's performance in order to reach 50 percent in a general election. With Republican Party identification down from parity four years ago to a 10-point deficit, this race would have been incredibly hard for the Republican nominee no matter what.
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Meanwhile, Tom Ridge, believes the race would be different if McCain had picked him instead of Palin for the VP slot. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports:Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge said today that John McCain can't become president without carrying Pennsylvania and that the race would be different if McCain had chosen him as his running mate.
"I think the dynamics would be different in Pennsylvania," Ridge said when asked if he should have been chosen to run as vice president over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "I think we'd be foolish not to admit it publicly."
Ridge, the campaign's national co-chairman, said McCain "had several good choices and I was one of them."
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Saturday, 25 October 2008
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